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Not to be too nit-picky, but the terminology used to discuss the newer extra-capacity recordable dvd’s can be confusing. DVD-9 is technically reserved for describing DUAL LAYER, replicated discs. DVD-5 and DVD-9 (although reserved for replicated discs) has generally morphed into meaning the capacity in general of a disc, whether is replicated, or recordable (and “-” or “+”). The first one out of the blocks for two layers on a single side was the “+” format. DL DVD+R stands for DOUBLE LAYER (although sites offering the media will also call it DUAL LAYER)–which I think is confusing by itself, because you can get DOUBLE SIDED discs (but that’s another topic). DL DVD-R (Double layer/Dual layer DVD-R) have more recently become available. It’s the only one ‘sanctioned’ by the DVD Forum.
The ‘early’ reports of poor set top acceptability of the + format DL discs is IMO not a fault of the disc, but a fault in the way the user created the disc. The DL recordables I’ve made have been every bit as compatible as any single layer media I’ve used or use. The reference is often made from a single article by Ralph LaBarge in DV magazine I believe in Feb or Mar of this year–and the article was actually written in Dec. I believe the software used to create the DL discs at the time was Nero–which back then incorrectly set the layer break (later found and recognized). The article really was about comparing three different dual layer burners, but as an aside a couple of discs per burner were tested. R. LaBarge also ended the article suggesting that one really shouldn’t shy away from the burners because of the initial results, because so much can change in a short time span. Certainly, Ralph could jump in and add comments if I’ve incorrectly paraphrased the content of the article.
DVDSP3 can compile and produce projects for DL recordable output–I’ve made several of them.
Jim
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I think you handled it quite well (and I know you don’t need any help supporting you position), I just don’t like seeing that kind of posting–it serves no helpful purpose, and can in the long run dissuade others from posting because of potential attacks.
Jim
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To avoid any confusion, my post was in reference to R Plant’s, not Alex.
Jim
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Yikes! What on earth justifies such vitriol? Please tone it down.
Jim
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Add a menu, drag and drop your fbi warning graphic onto it and set it as your background. Check the inspector window on the lower right hand corner and go to the tab that allows you to define the user operations. You can disable which ones of those you like, to prevent the viewer from skipping the viewing of the menu. You would want to set the duration of the ‘menu’ with your fbi warning for how many seconds you’d like, and set it to time out after one second with the end jump as your original main/first menu. You would want to right click on the fbi menu(to select it in the outline/graphical view upper left) and set it as first play. You can also click on the disc icon on the top of the outline view and select the connections view (middle section) and set the first play there as well.
Jim
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Delivery on a DLT tape is the best way to go, but there might be other options to consider depending on what the replication facility will accept and can work with. Here is a post from Trai F. on the forums here regarding output to recordable media (not playable mind you):
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=111304885069866&forumid=155&highlight=CSS
Jim
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No–because even if you can change the ifo (which there are apps that can), you can’t include region coding on a recordable disc, only replicated ones.
Jim
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Brad,
For future reference, uncompressed audio formats (wave/aiff) are bandwidth ‘hogs’. There are imposed dvd spec limits to how high the combined audio and video stream bitrates can be. The combined bitrate is ~ 10Mbps. Aiff all by itself is about 1.5 Mbps–leaving you a max bitrate of about 8.5 Mbps for your video. If you have a future project where you choose a higher video max bitrate than the one you posted AND you are using VBR to encode it(variable bitrate–which you are), then even with one audio stream (uncompressed) you could get the same error message. DVDSP’s encoder currently is notorious for putting spikes in the video encode that go well above the ‘limit’ imposed by the user (in your case 5 Mbps) so that once it’s combined with the audio, it exceeds the dvd spec, and the project build stops. You chose a very low max (5Mbps), and even with that, you got the error message trying to build with two audio streams. The two audio streams’ bitrate are combined for consideration of overall bandwidth, so having two (1.5Mbps times two) lowers the video limit allowable to about 7 Mbps (10 Mbps max minus the 3 Mbps of the two audio streams). Eventhough the 7 Mbps was greater than you 5 Mbps max setting, compressor put a spike in the encode that put it over and you got an error message.
The things you can do to prevent that are first and foremost, convert your aiff audio to ac3 using the included APack program (currently outside of DVDSP–but will be included directly in the app with version 4). Second, avoid using VBR if possible (if you are using compressor). CBR with compressor is more reliable in keeping within the parameters you set. It appears to me that you only have about 70 minutes total of video content. You could encode that with CBR at ~7Mbps, encode your audio at 192 to 224 kbps ac3 and have a much better looking dvd. Since there will be a lot of motion in your content, IMO, you would want to use a higher bitrate.
Jim
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The answer is it depends. DVDSP 2 and beyond support iDVD (iDVD 3&4) projects by direct import. You just start an iDVD project with the menu you want and save the project. You would then open the project in DVDSP. Unfortunately, iDVD5 projects are not supported, even with the upcoming release of DVDSP 4. I do believe however you can navigate to the folder where the iDVD themes are saved on the HD and use the backgrounds, etc. in DVDSP.
Jim
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You do realize that the cost of Scenarist software alone (for what you want to do) is several thousands more than DVDSP AND a Mac to run it on?
Jim